Masteries

Offense:
9

Defense:
15

Utility:
6

Introduction

Hello your good buddy Moderate here with a guide on my FAVORITE champ Yorick!! In this guide i will give you an in depth look into the dramatically underplayed and underestimated champion. Going over play style, builds, team role, and genral tips and tricks. He is a great tanky dps melee caster using minions to drag his targets into submission. I am not a high ranked player but i do see my self as a great Yorick player i found him at about level 10 and never stopped playing him from 30 and beyond, and i know him inside and out. With this guide i can guarantee you will not be disappointed.
So lets get down to work on Yorick, The Grave Digger.
Please Leave me any constructive comments as this is my first guide :D

Now here is the most important set for me. Due to the fact Yorick has no real gap closer and you have to hit someone for you speed boost. I Find these to be a must so many times i have been able to get more and more damage off on a running champion that should be out running me. I love these!

Masteires & why

I have found the most success with 9/15/6, i focus mainly on shooting for CDR to fill in the gear gap. This set up also provides some good early game damage, resilience, and mana regeneration. Ill cover the main ghouls ...er ... i mean goals in each tree. All this yorick talk has me to excited!

Utility Tree

Summoner Spells

This is by far the most versatile spell in LOL it can be you used to close the gap, hop over walls, dodge spells, and any other time its useful to be over there instead over here ;D I take this spell because i find yorick to be a great duelist, i use to to most of the time dodge important spells (ie. Ahri's Charm./ Kennen's Thundering Shuriken )

Early game i use this to finish my kills due to yorick's gap closing problems. Late game as you push on to carries that need killing this is really important to keep there life steal down and support heals from be effective.

Some other options

I love this on yorick when soloing top. I love it because it lets me farm endlessly. I use it to help gank lanes or protect people from ganks, or the drop me in a team fight quickly. Its fantastic, its so hard to choose ignite over this D:

Skills

This passive is really very good, but tends to go unnoticed. Its key to his dueling & team fighting. with he is in the fray spamming his ghouls this really cuts down his damage taken and ups his damage output, up to 20% if using your ult Omen of Death.

This is a great skill if used properly but you have to know how to use it. First things first it is a on next hit effect spell meaning it does reset your attack timer so always make sure to get a melee swing off THEN cast the omen, it will provide a high amount of burst damage. It also grants a good movement speed increase allowing you to stick to a opponent.

Say hello to the RAGE FACE!!! of yoricks ghouls. It acts as a AOE slowing nuke, this is key to your damage not because of the damage its does alone but the slow allows you other ghouls to sit on their target doing close to max dps. This is also a great bush checking skill, just toss it over a wall and in some brush and good to go.

This is the key omen to yoricks laning and dueling, its a ranged nuke that heals yorick for a percent of the damage. It also summons a ghoul that heals yorick for the damage it does. This is all the life steal you will really ever need you can stay in lane days, using this to damage your enemy and heal you at the same time.

All of yoricks simple ghouls (not the ult) will target the enemy they are cast on, if the target dies they will attack the nearest enemy champion. Using ghouls to last hit creeps in this way will cause your ghouls to chase down the enemy after the creep dies to the cast. This creates a very powerful farm harass combo.

Ultimate

. This is one of those ultimates that is hard to use well, but game changing if used well. I will cover some of the most common uses for his ult in this section.

The first and probably most common use of yorick's ult is in a duel setting, casting it for extra damage and life insurance so to speak. If you die you get the chance to come back to finish the job.

Second is casting it on an ally for the same purpose, life insurance and extra damage. This ult scales with the targets AD so casting it on AP champ should only be for a life saving act. Cast it on a ranged AD carry turns team fights into 6v5!

Third For taking towers it is fantastic send the clone in using alt click to move it, and take the tower with the extra damage and meat shield at your command.

Fourth tanking dragon and baron, its basically the same idea with the tower send the clone in to be the best meat shield ever and do work.

Now There are some other less regular things you can do with this ult, using it to block other ult is extremely usefully and difficult. If Caitlyn ults a friendly champ and you cant get in range to block it ult them and move the copy in the way. Or if you see Skarner going in for the pull ult the most vulnerable target on your team has he goes in, time and time again i have had him pull copies and see 4 ults get used on it. You can also send it out from a champion thats in a bush the enemy thinks its the real one and waste plenty of CDs on a pointless copy.

Items

ALWAYSbase you build and build order off what you are fighting dealing with in a game. If DAT shaco is getting fed you might want to rush some early armor, just as a example.

Next Tear of the Goddess or Chalice of Harmony + Boots of Speed
Getting tear early will give you all the mana you will need and allow to get those stack rolling or MM. Chalice is great for if your going more tanky or dealing with a heavy AP lane both great items. boots always a good choice.

THE BIG ONE Trinity Force
after you have built your CDR Start moving into this item, you will notice how incredibly hard you start hitting, and the with the zeal and other movement buffs you will find yourself zipping across the map terrorizing the enemy.

Feeling unstoppable? The Bloodthirster
Great item when you have the team in your back pack, tons of ad and the life steal always helps out.

Gameplay video

This is just a quick video to show you what yorick can do. This is also my first video so any constructive comments would be great

Wrapping up

I hope this has giving you a good look into this very powerful and fun champion, i appreciate anything that will help me improve this guide and my playing so let me know, and i hope to see more yoricks on the loading screens! I ask that you try my build and see how it work before you cut it down.

League of Legends is a team based, real time strategy game set in a mythical world of swords & magic where epic battles decide the fate of mystical nations. Game players take on the role of a Summoner who conjures and controls champions to fight for them at the Institute of War. During game play champions gain experience and items to enhance their skills and abilities. How players develop and play their champions can be the difference between a crushing defeat or a glorious victory!